Sgt. Reginald Pearsall explains to Spc. Joshua Lewis on how his official military personal file is used to keep track of important documents such as enlistment and reenlistment contracts, awards, and ...

Shelves of military records stand nearly 30 feet high at the National Archives in St. Louis. (Lenin Hurtado/National Archives) Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, it’s expected ...

When Miranda Dotson wanted to learn more about her late grandfather's military service, she turned to the U.S. National Archives for help. Dotson, a producer at WRAL-TV, filed a records request to see ...

With Memorial Day weekend honoring those who have served their country in the armed services, people may want to find out more about their family’s military history. Services and materials are ...

What are the best resources for finding records on African-American veterans of the 19th and 20th centuries? Military draft, enrollment and service records can provide a gold mine of information about ...

Correspondent photo / Nancilynn Gatta Tim Seman, president of the Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, gestures to his laptop during his presentation “Military Genealogy: ...

A bipartisan group of 233 members of Congress is urging the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis to start processing military records requests after a near-complete pause in operations due ...

The U.S. military has quietly moved medical record-keeping into the digital age, with health care providers and patients serving as pioneers not only to benefit military medicine but the nation, ...

Some lawmakers are fed up with the National Personnel Records Center, or NPRC, falling behind by nearly 500,000 military record requests critical for benefits. And the center still lacks a plan to ...

Lawmakers and military veterans are among those expressing outrage on Twitter over reports that the military records of 11 people, including several Republicans who ran for Congress in last year's ...